CURRENT VIEWS ON COGNITION - EMOTION RELA TIONSHIP

Last fifteen years were remarked by great effort in cognition - emotio n relation investigation. Rapid movement proceeded from cognitive aspe ct of emotion to emotional biases in information processing. Two oppos ite positions held in the cognitive - emotional debate of early 80ths (Zajonc's primacy of emotion and Lazarus's primacy of cognition) are d escribed in the introduction. Two issues are mentioned in respect to t he cognitive view on emotion: levels of processing and cognitive model s of anxiety. A prevailing part of the study is devoted to the current research in the field, the emotional aspect of cognition. Topics like preattentive versus attentive biases in processing, mood-congruent re call, selective interpretation, process specificity of emotional biase s and state versus trait variables in cognitive emotional processing a re dealt with in details. Other concepts, as current concern and bista bility, are related to the study's topic. Klinger's sequential-compone nt theory of emotion is shortly discussed.